Monitoring Coordinator Job Description

JOB SUMMARY
The Forest Monitoring Coordinator (Coordinator) works as a key member of the Northern Blues Monitoring Team (Monitoring Team), a resource team of the Northern Blues All-Lands Restoration Partnership (Partnership). The public, tribal, and private members of the Partnership work together to create ecologically functional and resilient forest landscapes across northeast Oregon and southeast Washington. The Monitoring Team works with Partnership stakeholders to implement the Northern Blues Monitoring Plan (Monitoring Plan) that measures the short- and long-term ecological, social, and economic efficacy of projects across federal, tribal, and private lands.

The Coordinator is responsible for preparing for a five-month field season across a 10-million-acre landscape, hiring and directing seasonal staff, coordinating training for seasonal staff, working with partners to identify monitoring plot locations, leading the crew in collecting accurate field data, inputting field data, providing summary reports, and closing out each field season. The Coordinator provides summaries and presentations to the Partnership as well as other interested parties. The Coordinator reports to the Monitoring Manager